The Works of Lawrence Sterne
Cadell & Davies et al., 1819.
Four volumes. Finely bound in contemporary green diced calf with gilt border to covers. Red morocco title labels to spine and embellishments in gilt and blind. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Sterne after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Separate steel engraved title pages for each of the nine volumes of Tristram Shandy and each of the other works. A fine set, crisp and clean.
Sterne's most famous work, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, is now noted for its innovative development of the novel and regarded as an influence on modernist writers such as Joyce and Woolf.
Bookplates of Henry Horne to each pastedown.
Stock ID: 29674
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